11:21 PM,
Dec. 12, 2012

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New University of Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops' latest assistant-coaching hire is an old friend.

Nebraska tight ends coach Vince Marrow, who has known Stoops since their middle school days in Youngstown, Ohio, told The Courier-Journal on Wednesday that he is in Lexington and finalizing paperwork so that he can get out on the road recruiting for the Wildcats.

Marrow said he will coach UK's tight ends and mine his home state for talent, which many around the program believe is a key to the Cats competing in the SEC. He and Stoops played together under Stoops' father at Ohio powerhouse ...